Biography
After self-recording music and film scores under various names since 2007, self-taught overdubbist, Jason Aud, established Weird Artifacts in 2017. At that time, two previous works, As Is The Sun (2009) & Snakes (2012), were re-released under the WA name. Following 3 years of spare-time recording, a self-titled album, Weird Artifacts, was completed in 2018. A follow-up album titled Squirmer was announced on September 9, 2020, with the release of the lead single “Arms” and its b-side “Glassware” - the album was officially released on September 25. The next WA project came in early 2023 with the Bronze Opportunity EP, a collection of six previously unreleased and/or unfinished tracks from various time periods in Jason’s recording career, some nearly ten years old.
Beginnings:
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In 2007, Jason started recording lo-fi music with a Tascam 4-track under the name Jason The Swamp. That same year he finished his first full-length, Things, graciously hand-made and released by Isaac Arms on his short-lived CDR label, Pop! Monster Records.
After finding a like-minded online community of DIY music makers, in 2008 he re-released Things on Rack & Ruin Records (2008-2011). Notable Rack & Ruin alumni include Dylan Ettinger, Dog Bite, & pre-No Monster Club project, Dublin Duck Dispensary.
Eventually ditching the 4-track, he would put out three more albums on Rack & Ruin, including 2009's As Is The Sun, a loose concept album from the perspective of a lone figure lost in some wilderness. Songs from this album would be included in Robby Massey & Derek Mungor's debut film, Desolation Wilderness (2011), for which Jason also composed the score. Collaborations with these filmmakers would continue with Mungor's first-person slasher, You Are Not Alone (2014), and Massey's 2017 short, TrashMen, both scored by Jason.
Weird Artifacts is based just outside Baltimore, Maryland.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.